Large, stable and successful organisation, with a lot of career opportunity

Cons

Usual challenges of a a very large bureaucratic organisation - can be difficult to implement change - hierarchical structure - not ideally suited to those who are creative or driven to improve

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Invest time in building engaged, high performing teams, empowering resources to perform at their best - adopting personality profiling to optimise collaboration, improve communication effectiveness and team performance

Huge company, the potential for many opportunities if you network and make many contactsFlexible workplace (but depends upon your management).Salary packing good.Staff benefits good.Some massive talent.

Cons

Communication. Senior Management communicate their vision quite effectively, lower levels of management are often unable to translate this into meaningful rhetoric as it applies to "individual contributors".Jobs for the boys - very often jobs will be advertised internally (as per company policy) with somebody in mind.Changes in senior management seem to bring about wholesale changes in direct reports, in my experience this means people from their previous place of employment.Massive program of outsourcing.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Depending on one's immediate management, there is a culture of blame.The concept of Customer is peculiar - I was accused of overservicing a Customer, but the company stated values include that the "Customer is at the Centre of everything we do."

- Pay at Telstra is very good- Almost no much work every day as permanent

Cons

- if you do work and make less mistakes in the work, better performance, no matter how much you did during the whole year.- Serious discrimination in Sydney office.- Office is very messy just like how people do the work- Manager shout in the public office all day long- So many useless people stuck their because they want to get retired.

Politics has a nasty habit of killing good projectsHighly bureaucratic and complexNegative public perception

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Very sad to see David Thodey retiring, he made a huge difference in making the company more human, both for customers and empolyees. My advice is to stay on that track, there's still a lot more ground to cover but you're heading in the right direction.